Re: [tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

Why do they need to be verbal roots?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> Read my previous mail
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> Arnaud
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Ryan
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 8:57 PM
> Subject: [Courrier indsirable] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [tied]

Renfrew's theory renamed as Vasco-Caucasian

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: fournet.arnaud
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:36 AM
> Subject: Fw: Re: Re: Re: Re: [tied] Renfrew's theory renamed as

Vasco-Caucasian

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> Long i: versus zero
> ki:ku-s strength
> shvayati to be strong
> *ku- > shv as in kuHon "dog"
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> There is no reason to reject *i and *u as vowels.
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> You yourself have provided the reason for rejecting *i and *u as

vowels:

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> your failure to furnish 5 VERBAL roots of the form *CiC, or
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> 5 VERBAL roots of the form *CuC.
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> If *i and *u are *V, then providing VERBAL roots of the form

*CVC with *i and *u should be no problem.

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> Patrick Ryan
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